Business Advisory Services

Our team take the time to understand our clients’ business, industry sector and overall personal and business goals. This enables us to provide a strategic advisory service that helps support our clients’ growth ambitions.

Our focus is on being pro-active advisers, providing an extensive range of business advisory services.

Areas we typically support our clients on include; cashflow and profit projections, strategic planning for business growth, management information reports and systems, reviewing borrowing and funding requirements and buying, selling or restructuring a business.

Many of our clients also come to use for support or guidance on matters including; Directors remuneration and dividends, cloud accounting, pensions and auto enrolment, payroll and company secretarial services.

Accounts Preparation

Our business advisory services include general services such as year end accounts preparation, management accounts reviews and assistance in preparing budgets and financial projections. Accounts preparation from monthly management accounts to year end financial statements and reports for lodgement with statutory bodies.

Our role in preparing accounts for clients goes well beyond presenting information, ensuring that we support our clients with sound business advice for the short, medium and long term based on reliable trading information.

Corporate Tax

We provide the full range of corporate tax services within our specialist taxation department ranging from compliance based services such as advising on corporation tax payments and the completion of corporation tax returns, international tax matters and advice on remuneration planning as well as bespoke tax planning advice, often at key stages in the development of a business when forward thinking is critical.

Employer Compliance and National Insurance

We can advise on National Insurance compliance for employers, employees and the self employed in relation to state retirement pension forecasts and planning accordingly.

For many of our clients we prepare specific employer returns such as forms P11d (Return of expense payments and benefits). We advise on specific taxes flowing from these returns such as Class 1A National Insurance.

Payroll and Auto Enrolment

Completing payrolls can be an administrative nightmare. As well as being complex and time consuming, they can take you away from your most important role - managing your business.

The legislation constantly changes and innocent errors can lead to hefty fines.

We can help you and your business prosper by taking over these routine functions for you, allowing you to invest additional time in developing your business.

Our auto enrolment services
We can provide auto enrolment services in addition to the payroll function which include:
• Liaison with your provider and providing them with relevant data to initiate your scheme set up
• Assessment of your workers, each pay period, and deductions of contributions, where someone is assessed as being eligible
• Updating the payroll each pay cycle to incorporate any workers who wish to opt in or out
• Managing the passage of assessed data to your pension provider (both the maintenance and contribution files)

We also give advice on personnel matters including the potential impact of new government legislation. Our service is professional and bespoke to our clients who benefit from our dedicated staff.

Personal and Capital Gains Tax

We can advise on the completion of self-assessment income tax returns to personal tax planning and wealth management, from preparation of adjusted profit computations for tax to advice on appropriate business structures. We also advise many of our clients on capital gains tax providing projections of likely tax implications on proposed sales and how to best utilise any exemptions or relief currently available.

Andrew Ritchie has a wealth of experience looking after businesses of all sizes and types. He acts for a number of corporate groups based in the East of Scotland. Away from the larger corporates he is accustomed to providing commercial and tax advice to family businesses.

Carol is a specialist in supporting and developing a wide range of owner managed and family businesses, gaining expertise in over 30 years of professional practice after qualifying with Arthur Young.

She has significant knowledge and experience of the issues arising in the engineering, hospitality & leisure, innovation and motor & transport sectors and can provide value added advice in all these areas.

Donald Boyd gained valuable commercial experience in an operational finance role. He now puts this practical industry experience to the benefit of his clients primarily in the owner managed sector.

He has considerable experience in business start up and planning. Donald looks after a portfolio of clients, providing not just accounting and tax advisory but commercial advice. He plays an important role in many of his clients’ businesses, to assist in their growth and wealth creation.

Ian Craig is a General Practice Partner. He looks after a diverse portfolio of owner managed businesses, ranging from groups of companies to family partnerships providing accountancy, business advisory and taxation advice.

Neil has over 25 years experience in the audits of large groups of companies as well as transactional work, general taxation, and profit improvement planning. Covering most industry sectors, Neil looks after a portfolio of mainly owner managed businesses, providing not just accounting and tax advisory but commercial advice.

Nicola has been with the firm for over a decade, relocating to the Kilmarnock office when it opened. Whilst with the firm she has worked with a broad spectrum of clients and gained her CA qualification. Advising on the accounting and taxation affairs of businesses of all sizes, from sole traders to corporate group structures transitioning to audit, working with owner managers and finance directors alike. Nicola has worked in a project management capacity for a NASDAQ listed company and has previously volunteered her time as a business advisor to Young Enterprise Scotland.

Peter Gallanagh’s experience ranges from the audit of multi-national plc’s to providing strategic advice to SME’s. He heads up the firm’s Business Development Group. Peter works closely with his clients, understanding the issues impacting them, and providing commercial solutions and advice to the daily issues arising in their businesses.

Richard Patterson is a General Practice partner within Campbell Dallas. His experience ranges from the audit of an AIM listed plc to numerous owner managed businesses. He also provides strategic advice to his corporate clients, working with them to understand their aspirations, and helping identify practical solutions to various commercial challenges.

Richard has a broad range of experience over a number of sectors including manufacturing, food & drink, retail and technology.

Roy Hogg manages the firm’s Stirling office and has consistently delivered sound commercial knowledge and has a proven track record of adding value to client businesses. Apart from the provision of compliance services, Roy also has considerable experience of transaction support and corporate finance advisory work.

A qualified CA, David has vast experience in the audit and compliance of companies from his time working within the Big 4. He works with owner managed and private equity backed businesses in a range of industries including oil & gas services, retail, farming, construction and investment property.

David provides advice to businesses at every stage from start-up, growth, maturity to exit and manages the transition of clients onto cloud accounting software, making their systems more effective and efficient, whilst complying with the latest legislation.

David has extensive experience in advising a wide range of businesses within the owner managed business and family business sector.

David leads one of our integrated Business Advisory Teams that work closely with their clients to deliver joined up service across all services and disciplines. David routinely assists his clients with varied assignments such as budgeting, business funding, general strategy, systems improvement, tax planning and general financial and commercial advice.

Julie is a qualified Chartered Accountant who has been with us for over 23 years. Julie has worked in our Audit and Corporate Finance teams and is an integral part of our Business Advisory Services team. She provides regular management reporting services to a number of clients and attending their Board meetings, as well as preparing detailed financial projections to help them manage their businesses.

Sue has worked for over 12 years in the Business Group, providing accountancy and business advisory services to her clients. She has a wealth of experience working with owner managed and family businesses over a wide range of industry sectors. Sue’s satisfaction in work comes from helping business owners achieve their goals.

Could your business use some help with Business Advisory?

Over the years we have helped some of Scotland’s largest companies to manage their finances and save millions.

Campbell Dallas is a leading firm of accountants & business advisors in Scotland. Over 300 staff and 29 partners operate from 7 locations across Scotland; Aberdeen, Ayr, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Kilmarnock, Perth and Stirling.

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